Job Interview Difficulties


by Rintu Basu - Date: 2008-09-24 - Word Count: 835 Share This!

The night before the interview you diligently sit down and get ready. It might be the pay, the conditions or simply you hate your current role, but you are desperate for this new job.

You try all those tricks you have read on the internet about calming down by imagining the interviewer naked. It works for a few moments until you realise that your interview might be doing the same. You barely look at your CV as you fill your mind full of those negative thoughts like hundreds of people have better CVs or an uncle in the company or are just confident and slick with their language.

Having barely read through your CV you go to bed to dream of turning up to the interview naked. Morning comes round too soon and you are rushing out the door to get there on time. You arrive at the company just on time flustered, dishevelled and out of breath. Wheezing the name of your interviewer at the receptionist you get the clear idea that she thinks you are some crazed maniac as you suddenly go blank when she asks for your name.

A few minutes later a sour faced old cow greets you as your interviewer. She smiles at you like a serial killer just about to fall on their prey as she leads you to the interview room. In a desperate attempt to clam down you start some small talk. This basically consists of babbling something about the weather, the traffic and some TV you watched last night. Luckily the interview room is close by.

You eventually make it to the interview room and the old crone offers you a coffee. After spending a few minutes wiping yourself down from the coffee you just spilt down your front the old crone asks if you are ready to start the interview proper. She then says something like, "Just as a nice gentle start, talk me through your CV."

You mind immediately flicks through to if this is a gentle start what happens when it gets rough? You then realise that you didn't bring any copies of your CV and can barely remember anything on it. After a few minutes of aimless wittering about your favourite holidays you get the distinct impression that she thinks you have faked your CV.

The old crone decides to focus you in on some key areas by asking why you want to leave your current employment. You fumble around trying not to admit that you hate the company, the work and your boss and eventually hit on a "looking for fresh challenges" answer. Annoyingly she asks what sort of fresh challenges you think her company will give you.

In panic you try to think of her as naked…suddenly realise that is not a good idea and then start thinking she might be thinking of you the same way. Now you have forgotten the question and sit there with your mouth opening and closing like a frenzied guppy. And so the interview stumbles on for what seems like an eternity.

As the blood stops pumping round your body the old cow tells you that she has finished all her questions and asks if you have any questions for her. In an effort to appear keen you ask her when will the company make a decision. Hoping you have got the job she leads you out to the street after answering your question.

Whilst many people will have had some experience of this sort of this imagine an interview where you are so confident that you build massive amounts of rapport with the interviewer as well as take control of the interview. You then answer all the interview questions implanting suggestions that you are the best candidate for the role whilst turning any objections in to benefits. How good would this sort of interview feel?

Seem impossible? Perhaps not, many of these skills happen naturally and you have definitely seen others do this as part of their daily lives.

Have you ever seen someone just walking through life always getting the job they want even when not qualified? These are the people using these skills, sometimes naturally, sometimes they have been trained. In the majority of situations these skills only take a few hours to learn

It will only take a couple of hours of CV Writing to add lots of psychological and NLP pulling power. After this your CV will gain you more interviews than you could handle. Working through a Hypnotic Interview Answer Formula may take two hours, but the gains are incredible. You will have the skill for life and be able to apply it to many more situations.

Even though they don't look like easy skills to master building rapport, maintaining your composure and banishing interview nerves could take as little as thirty minutes.The only question is how much people are prepared to devote to mastering these interview skills because just a couple of hours is the difference between a great job and just the job you are doing now.

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To find out about Job Search Technqiues using NLP and Hypnosis you can go to The NLP Company website maintained by Rintu Basu. Rintu is the trainer of choice for the NLP Scotland Business Community. He maintains an exclusive coaching practice whilst also delivering high quality NLP Training and developing download products such as Hypnotic Interview Techniques.

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